Thanksgivingashit.

Mass-slaughtering lives since 1492.

Happy #Thanksgiving, everyone. Here's a little video about the REAL history behind this holiday. pic.twitter.com/tauDyGuVH6

— Teen Vogue (@TeenVogue) November 24, 2016

Relevant: 561 million pounds of turkey meat per year – and that’s just Arkansas.

Hat tip.

Fakebooc Hut Truckermütze.

Computer Science Legend, Rear Adm. Grace Hopper, Posthumously Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom. (Via reddit.com.)

Update: Just learnt that Margaret Hamilton also achieved the medal.

Sooo soooothing…

Giant rafting track marble run (via boingboing.net).

Font Style Matcher (via github.com).

If you're using a web font, you're bound to see a flash of unstyled text (or FOUC), between the initial render of your websafe font and the webfont that you've chosen. This usually results in a jarring shift in layout, due to sizing discrepancies between the two fonts. To minimize this discrepancy, you can try to match the fallback font and the intended webfont’s x-heights and widths. This tool helps you do exactly that.

According to Snopes, Fake News Is Not the Problem.

Take it from the internet’s chief myth busters: The problem is the failing media.

An Introduction Into Lenses In JavaScript.

The Fascinating History of the Meridian Lines Hidden in Catholic Churches.

The Non-Technical Guide to Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence.

News industry: Work together!

It's time for the news industry to collaborate to provide a flow of news that only comes from vetted sources. We need news we can trust.